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I went to see my PCP yesterday. I don't remember if I told you that the surgeon I went to see for my gallbladder put in her clinical notes that I was Toxic-Appearing and had really high blood pressure (194/82), and that I should see my PCP.

Ergo, I saw him. He does not think I am Toxic-Appearing (in other words I don't look like death warmed over) and will live. We discussed the blood pressure situation but nothing came of it *that I recall*. My pressure yesterday had 154 for a top number which is a lot higher than usual.

He seriously advised me to get a dog. I told him I was planning to move next summer (not out of my beloved Georgia), and I would think about it then.

I will be taking my son out driving again today. He did real well last night in the dark. He's gained a lot of self-confidence lately.

If I don't do laundry today, I will have to join a nudist colony for the seniors. Since we have 3 churches on our quiet residential street, I'll probably have to leave the state.
 

WheatenLover said:
More baking! I had a plan like yours for Christmas cookie baking. I was planning to bake about 15 kinds of cookies. Christmas rolled around, no cookies. No problemo, New Years Day will do! Resolution aside, Valentines Day rolled around and still no cookies. Then Christmas came again! And I, The Queen of Procrastination, made it through another entire year!

It's a big problem when one loves to eat one's own baking, but has tired of baking after 55 years of doing it. OTOH, I don't eat a dozen cookies at a time any more - no need to have will power (which, as you can see, is a good thing, since I don't).
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I make roughly 5000 cookies across 8 varieties every Christmas season and ship out 35 boxes of cookies to dear friends and family members, and also give a box of them to half a dozen neighbors. We'll have 4 parties this year, with everyone leaving our home with a box of 50-75 cookies. At three of those parties, I'll be cranking out 24 or so pizzas, as well. The 4th is Christmas Eve so no pizza that night.

Other than occasional rounds of biscotti or baking for a specific event or request, my cookie baking gloves are hung up between New Years and Thanksgiving.

My 9' X 4' dining room table during baking/shipping season.

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Pepper said:
I DID IT! Yesterday began wheelchairing myself around and today made twice around floor and backed myself into my room! Hard on hands. Calluses allready forming. Have more confidence and think healing well for an older broad.
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@Pepper .. you might consider buying a pair of cotton gloves, which might make it less hard on your hands. They have them for wheelchair users.
 
Pepper said:
I DID IT! Yesterday began wheelchairing myself around and today made twice around floor and backed myself into my room! Hard on hands. Calluses allready forming. Have more confidence and think healing well for an older broad.
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Is the chair temporary til your foot heals?
 
Pepper said:
Yes! Enjoying getting skills with chair. I’m on the move! Standing up for long periods of time. Truthfully now I’m exhausted. Don’t get much sleep here.
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In my experience, hospital and hospital-like settings are bright, noisy places 24/7 with noisy, uncomfortable plastic covered mattresses. I've never gotten a decent night's sleep until returning home.

Am I remembering correctly that the docs want to look at something with your other foot, or was that resolved already? Or did I dream that? 🤪
 
Fritz said:
I got 9 hrs of sleep in the five days I was in. I was not happy.
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same with me in July after the car crash... I was in the Emergency resus department so not a regular ward.. however it was very peaceful compared to the regular A&E dept.. or any wards... because there was no visitors allowed and I had a private room..one of 6..for seriously ill or injured patients , but they kept the doors open all night to keep an eye on me.. so I didn't sleep with all the activity going on beyond the doors and the bright lights shining in.... this is a picture I took at 3am from my bed... you can see the doors are wide open....


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Eventually I begged them to block the light.. they still wouldn't shut the door, because my hand and arm was wrecked I was unable to pull the cord if I need help.. so instead they pulled a curtain over.. helped a little not much

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jujube said:
Well, the Spousal Equivalent got the results back from his biopsy and it's melanoma again.

The last time was rough. His surgery is on Monday. We're hoping for the best. He sees the Derm every 6 months, so hopefully it hasn't gotten far.
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Oh , I'm sorry to hear that Jujube... what bad luck.... I do hope for your O/h' sake that the surgery goes well, and he recovers fully... 🙏
 
hollydolly said:
same with me in July after the car crash... I was in the Emergency resus department so not a regular ward.. however it was very peaceful compared to the regular A&E dept.. or any wards... because there was no visitors allowed and I had a private room..one of 6..for seriously ill or injured patients , but they kept the doors open all night to keep an eye on me.. so I didn't sleep with all the activity going on beyond the doors and the bright lights shining in.... this is a picture I took at 3am from my bed... you can see the doors are wide open....


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Eventually I begged them to block the light.. they still wouldn't shut the door, because my hand and arm was wrecked I was unable to pull the cord if I need help.. so instead they pulled a curtain over.. helped a little not much

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Here they dim the lights in the entire building at 9 pm.
 
StarSong said:
I make roughly 5000 cookies across 8 varieties every Christmas season and ship out 35 boxes of cookies to dear friends and family members, and also give a box of them to half a dozen neighbors. We'll have 4 parties this year, with everyone leaving our home with a box of 50-75 cookies. At three of those parties, I'll be cranking out 24 or so pizzas, as well. The 4th is Christmas Eve so no pizza that night.

Other than occasional rounds of biscotti or baking for a specific event or request, my cookie baking gloves are hung up between New Years and Thanksgiving.

My 9' X 4' dining room table during baking/shipping season.

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Okay, I now know for sure that you are a cheerful and optimistic Wonder Woman!

If I suddenly woke up being perfect, I could not achieve completing that project.
 
Yesterday I was up right after midnight and cleaned the bathroom. Mid morning I walked to the supermarket. My son went to Walmart and Costco for me after work. In the evening, I put away the things he bought and Deja's Chewy order that had come in the day before.

This morning I went down to the laundry room and washed clothes before dawn. I dried them in our apartment sized dryer, though it takes a bit longer. I put away the rest of the items from the load I did earlier in the week and half the ones from today. I napped for a couple of hours, then got ready to go to HS#3's broadcast. I was a guest again tonight and during the show's second half, I shared my experiences as a recording artist with Impostor's Syndrome, tonight's topic. Impostor's Syndrome is explained here:
https://search.brave.com/search?q=what+is+impostors+syndrome&source=desktop&summary=1&conversation=be3e88163ca73d52f88e8b

We got nice feedback about the show. My plan for the rest of the night is to relax and watch some mindless T.V., likely a B disaster or monster movie (or a combo of both).
 
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Fritz said:
I got 9 hrs of sleep in the five days I was in. I was not happy.
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A few years ago when I was in the hospital, I was getting almost no sleep, too, so my doctor gave me a small dose of trazodone. It didn't help that much, so the next night she doubled the dose, and it worked too well: I put my head on the pillow, and the next thing I knew I was waking up in the morning. It freaked me out. After that, I just went without much sleep until I was discharged.
 
horseless carriage said:
What a lovely compliment, thank you Diva. We do keep busy, deliberately so, in her working life she was a paramedic in the ambulance service, that kept her busy, and some. Our love of dance meant that we would go to such functions and the dancing kept us fit. Nowadays we go to those functions to keep in touch with all those we befriended. Not being able to dance does get her down, but she remembers, when at work, repeating doctors orders to patients the do's and don'ts, so she is not about to ignore her surgeon's advice.
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You're welcome, of course. I didn't know Mrs. H.C. was in the medical field before. I have a special place in my heart for medical professionals. I can imagine how not being able to dance makes her feel. I love to dance, so I know how I'd feel if I wasn't able to do it. It's good that she's following her doctor's advice.
 
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KSav said:
A few years ago when I was in the hospital, I was getting almost no sleep, too, so my doctor gave me a small dose of trazodone. It didn't help that much, so the next night she doubled the dose, and it worked too well: I put my head on the pillow, and the next thing I knew I was waking up in the morning. It freaked me out. After that, I just went without much sleep until I was discharged.
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The one thing I swear by when sleeping in a hospital is the ear plugs that block the highest level of decibels. If light bothered me at night, I would have also gotten an eye mask.

I spent plenty of time sleeping in hospitals when one or the other, or even all, of my children were hospitalized. So this method has been tried on both the kids and me with great success. Not on babies, though.
 
KSav said:
A few years ago when I was in the hospital, I was getting almost no sleep, too, so my doctor gave me a small dose of trazodone. It didn't help that much, so the next night she doubled the dose, and it worked too well: I put my head on the pillow, and the next thing I knew I was waking up in the morning. It freaked me out. After that, I just went without much sleep until I was discharged.
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The thing is I wanted to sleep but they were in every hour or two pestering me so I finally gave up. I got home and laid down and was out.
 
Fritz said:
The thing is I wanted to sleep but they were in every hour or two pestering me so I finally gave up. I got home and laid down and was out.
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I sleep so soundly (unless a child cries) that I don't even wake up in the hospital when the nurses come in for whatever they do besides wake up living people to make sure they are fully alive.
 
Fritz said:
The thing is I wanted to sleep but they were in every hour or two pestering me so I finally gave up. I got home and laid down and was out.
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Fritz, that is the very reason I've avoided going to the hospital, even after fainting a few time due to A-fib episodes. I imagined that being there would only make me feel worse, especially with them wanting to take blood every time you turn around. I'm sorry you experienced that !

@WheatenLover Wow...you've been through a lot! Great news that your aneurism repair is fine. Good idea about the ear plugs. And it's good you can sleep so soundly in a hospital environment. But wait....your BP was 194/82 and nothing came of your discussions with your PCP about that?! Then he recommended that you get a dog?! Seriously? It's good that your son is confident during his driving lessons. I hope he aces the driver's test.
 
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OneEyedDiva said:
Fritz, that is the very reason I've avoided going to the hospital, even after fainting a few time due to A-fib episodes. I imagined that being there would only make me feel worse, especially with them wanting to take blood every time you turn around. I'm sorry you experienced that !

@WheatenLover Wow...you've been through a lot! Great news that your aneurism repair is fine. Good idea about the ear plugs. And it's good you can sleep so soundly in a hospital environment. But wait....your BP was 194/82 and nothing came of your discussions with your PCP about that?! Then he recommended that you get a dog?! Seriously? It's good that your son is confident during his driving lessons. I hope he aces the driver's test.
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Well, we did discuss my BP. I just don't remember what he said about it. I know my BP's top number at his office was 154. It is usually around 130 and basically normal with the meds I take. I have a vague memory of him asking if I still used the WM pharmacy.

The dog issue came up because I changed the subject. I have a way of doing that which is endemic in my Irish family.

Honestly, I don't know how people who meet us as a group of two or more understand what we are talking about since it is likely to be 2 or more subjects at once and everyone can talk and listen at the same time. Sometimes we are trying to solve a problem - groupthink - while the one who had the problem is yelling that he's already solved it. I have loved my extended family's communication style since I was a little girl. It fascinated me then and it fascinates me now.

I am about to email my cardiologist. He will put this to rights quick like a rabbit.

I just don't want to make it clear to my PCP that I obviously wasn't listening well. No sense him getting the idea that my mind wanders. I did very recently pass his dementia test with flying colors! My stepdaughter remarked wryly this afternoon that my PCP must always wonder what is going to come out of my mouth next.

I have always been like this; it is not a sign of senility! I am just weird, and I like it that way. :)
 
WheatenLover said:
I sleep so soundly (unless a child cries) that I don't even wake up in the hospital when the nurses come in for whatever they do besides wake up living people to make sure they are fully alive.
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i may hafta take my earplugs next time but not sure if it will help.
 

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